Management and Governance
AWS Service Catalog
Governed provisioning context without direct skill wording.
Key points
- Service Catalog provides governed provisioning context but no numbered SOA-C03 skill assigns it standalone depth.
Best-known use cases
- D1.1: use an approved catalog product only when the scenario explicitly requires governed self-service provisioning.
What candidates often confuse it with
- Service Catalog presents approved products; CloudFormation owns the stack lifecycle behind applicable products.
Key takeaway
Keep Service Catalog at recognition depth unless the task states a governed provisioning requirement.
Related services
- AWS Auto Scaling
- AWS CDK
- AWS CloudFormation
Relevant exam tasks
- D1.1 — Task 1.1: Implement metrics, alarms, and filters by using AWS monitoring and logging services.
- 1.1.1 — Use AWS services (for example, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus) to configure monitoring and logging for workloads (for example, serverless, compute, AI).